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Sorry to the Slackware users. For the first time in more than 2 years, I can´t release binary packages. No computer, no internet access. no email, nothing.
Hope it´s only temporary.
Life can´t be always easy :)

Ohh... I just complained *smilingsheepishly* on another site about not having Slackware packages. *sigh*.
But thanks anyway for the great job you do with making the packages all the other times! It was one of the reasons for me to move to Slackware because of the great KDE binaries there usually are so soon for this great Linux distribution!
*wonderingifIshouldjustwaitforpackagesorifIshouldlearnhowtobuildKDEfromCVS;)*

Hey JC, thanks for the KDE packages. Those packages of KDE which matter to me, were only (mostly) available for slackware. So, I got interested in checking KDE on slackware. Thank you for your painstaking efforts; I love slackware, which doesn't pollute pristine Look and Feel of KDE, GNome; like RH, and Mandrake. No offence to those distros intended.

What happened? Did you accidently find an error in M$ software and billiboys cleaners ... ehm ... lawyers confiscated your belongings?
The fsf keeps a list of pros for this kind of emergency. Hope, they can help.

I have installed the KDE 3.2 (slackware-current) packages. The results are very confusing, it's almost as if it breaks dependencies. I no longer have color in the konsole. I somehow have a crazy font error in konsole. And the sound seems to be messed up now. I think I'm going to just compile from src. ;)

Richie
PS I have tried the same approach on my workstation at work with the same result. I highly disrecommend this approach to people. Just either go get the CVS or just compile all the source. I think this would be the best way.

With all these releases thank goodness I'm learning how to use CVS properly! A big thank you to all the people who put together the quality team document on building and using CVS. It really is invaluable!

I hope so. I haven't been able to use Kate since 3.1.5 really. The layout is not remembered. People who use Kate knows :) And Quanta is dead slow, hope 3.2.2 fixes this. I use it at work, would be nice with a little speed up. I mean, slow on a 2.5 ghz! come one! A text editor? :)

Anyhow, going to install it in a few days. Just have to make space for the puter to buzz in a dark room so I can sleep while it is compiling :D

Are you kidding? Do you now the difference between writing a chanagelog and doing changes? The developers give you an app for free and just because they don't write a changelog you say the app is unmaintained? Kmail is one of the most vibrating KDE apps.

I find it really strange that knotes gets loads of eye-candy (rich text, different colors, etc.) but the most important feature (I want to search text, how else am I ever going to find anything in my notes?) is still missing...

You do realize that KDE 3.2.2 was a bug fix release, right? New features are not allowed in minor releases. Whether something is a bug fix or a new feature is sometimes a matter of opinion and therefore up to the developers. But "search text" is definitely a new feature.

Is anyone else seeing duplicate icons in their Konq toolbars and menus?

When I first fired 3.2.2 up, Konqueror had it's usual buttons, the logo, and then everything over again. Customizing the toolbars did not show the dupes. Removing the '' entry fixed that, but I still have two clear location and go buttons in the location toolbar.

Also, I have an additional 'Bookmarks' menu in the menubar, and the contents of the 'Go,' and 'Window' menus are duplicated. 'Tools' has 'Run Command,' 'Open Terminal,' and 'Find File' twice.

I experienced the same problem updating from 3.1 to 3.2
with Woody Packages. I solved it, but now I have updated
from 3.2 to 3.2.2 I am experiencing the same problem
(also texts as "No Text" in the help menu of some
aplications) I don't remember how to solve it.
I think it was a problem with a important packages, such
as kdelibs-data or kdebase, but after purgin all kde packages
and removing /etc/kde3 and /usr/lib/kde3 the problem persists.

Maybe there is a package I forgotten to --purge...

Other problem is with KDM, it needs debconf >= 1.2.9
and the woody version is 1.0.32, but the packager
haven't provided this version or he had an error
compiling it with debconf 1.2.9.

So did you actually fix the toolbar/menu problem? If yes how? Cause the system.kdeglobals file doesn't exist. I copied the kdeglobals from my .kde, and symlinked but still the same. I'll also attach a snapshot for anyone who haven't seen this.

I think this is a debian specific problem.

If anyone has solved this can they please post a solution.
Thanks
Cirrus

Talking to tackat, we found a workaround.
ln -s /etc/kde3 /usr/share/config

(the reason for the strange menus was that ui_standards.rc wasn't found)
No idea how debian configures kdelibs, but if it doesn't tell it that the global config dir is /etc/kde3, then KDE looks in /usr/share/config, of course.

A solution for KDE 3.2.0 was
dpkg -i --force-confmiss /path/to/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.0-0woody1_all.deb
But this doesn't solve the problem this time )-:

Because of this I downgraded back to 3.2.0. And I'm really thinking about the possibility to switch from Debian "stable/backports" to Mandrake or Suse since the last Backports for KDE and Gnome made a lot of trouble on my system. I simply don't have the time to fix my system two or three times a month.

Yes, I also have been thinking about changing to Suse,
because I want a recent version of a desktop environment
and I need so many backports and external packages that
this couldn't be good for my system. Every time I upgrade
an external package a problem happens.

I'm running SuSE 8.2 Pro right now, and I haven't gone to the trouble of installing the unofficial KDE 3.2 packages due to distro upgrade concerns. Does anyone know which version of KDE 3.2 SuSE will ship in 9.1?

Thank you,
Paul.

KDE 3.1.1 is great for me right now, I hope KDE 3.2 will be even better.

Most definitely. SuSE is the major KDE-centric distro. There's no way they're leaving out 3.2 3.2.1 is currently in the 9.1 release candidates and I'm pretty sure it will stick for the final. 3.2.2 and later updates will certainly still be available in the usual place.

If you've never tried a system with kernel 2.6 and KDE 3.2 before, you're in for a rather pleasant shock in terms of speed, responsiveness, and general being-cool-ness.